Active clinical trials for "Dwarfism, Pituitary"

To test the hypothesis that both lack and excess of growth hormone (GH) is associated with cardiac abnormalities. Cardiac function and morphology will be evaluated by MRI before and after treatment.

Evaluation of PREPL activity in healthy controls and known or possible PREPL deficient patients

This study is a multicenter, open-label, postmarketing surveillance study. The substudy will collect information on BMD in adolescents and young adults with GHD or Turner syndrome who are completing GH treatment for statural indications.

This project is designed to answer the question: Is there an acute IGFBP-3 response in normal children? Our specific hypothesis states that under the influence of growth hormone secretagogues, intact IGFBP-3 molecule will undergo proteolysis and liberate IGFBP-3 fragments, along with other components of the ternary complex. This proteolysis will result in measurable rise in IGFBP-3, which will indicate the subject's growth hormone status. Short children with growth hormone deficiency will not show an IGFBP-3 response.

This study is conducted in the United States of America (USA). The aim of the study is to assess the minimal important difference (MID) of the TRIM-AGHD.

This study is a multicenter, open-label, observational, postmarketing surveillance study that will collect information on the use of Genentech GH preparations to treat GH-deficient subjects with optimal GH dosing during puberty.

The purpose of this study si to define morphological and epidemiological parameters and identify new symptoms in French patients with Seckel syndrome (SCKL) or microcephalic osteodysplastic primordial dwarfism type II (MOPDII).

This study is conducted in Europe and the United States of America (USA). The aim of the study is to validate two measures for growth hormone deficiency in children, the Treatment Related Impact Measure of Childhood Growth Hormone Deficiency (TRIM-CGHD) and the Treatment Burden Measure of Childhood Growth Hormone Deficiency (TB-CGHD).

The aim of this study is to assess the developmental patterns of lung function in children affected by growth hormone deficiency after one year of GH therapy.The assessment by specific questionnaires of quality of life and of parental stress index.Parameters will be evaluated at the time of the diagnosis and after 12 months of GH therapy.

This study will recruit healthy controls (who have normal GH production and growth hormone levels) and patients identified as having GHD, who are deemed eligible for GH replacement therapy according to NICE guidelines. The patients recruited will have been identified as starting on GH by their referring clinicians and a decision made on their replacement therapy prior to their potential enrollment in the study. The study, or its research team, will have no influence on the decision as to whether a patient will start on GH, or on which of the many GH formulations that the patients receives. The proposed study is an observational study to determine how GH affects the plasma levels of Fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) in response to treatment; and whether the change in FGF21 mirrors the improvement in body composition/fat deposition. FGF21 is a metabolic regulator that acts on multiple tissues to coordinate carbohydrate and lipid metabolism and regulate energy balance. We hypothesize that FGF-21 is expressed and secreted from liver and skeletal muscle in humans in response to growth hormone administration and that levels may be reduced in patients with GHD compared with healthy controls. Furthermore, we believe that the beneficial effects of long-term GH replacement on body composition (reduction in visceral adipose tissue, subcutaneous adipose tissue and liver fat), on improvement in lipid profiles and on skeletal muscle mitochondrial function involve GH-induced release of FGF21.